Helen Fielding
Helen Fielding
Helen Fielding is an English novelist and screenwriter, best known as the creator of the fictional character Bridget Jones, and a sequence of novels and films beginning with the life of a thirtysomething singleton in London trying to make sense of life and love...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth19 February 1958
book controversy
My books have all generated controversy.
self substance way
I will not sulk about having no boyfriend, but develop inner poise and authority and sense of self as woman of substance, complete without boyfriend, as best way to obtain boyfriend.
order people should
Exes should never, never go out with or marry other people but should remain celibate to the end of their days in order to provide you with a mental fallback position.
men radical-feminism unattractive
In the end there is nothing more unattractive to men than radical feminism.
brave
I am brave, though I am alone.
uplifting fun writing
It's rather fun writing a female spy, because she has so much more kit. Bond never carried a hair dryer or a makeup bag. And he certainly didn't wear an uplift bra.
serious comedy painful
Comedy tends to come out of things which are quite painful and serious.
real thinking ideas
There are so many images pushed at women and so many ideas of what you're supposed to be. I think there's too much of this superwoman, this woman with a bottom like two billiard balls. There's no real celebration of just being a person.
smirk
It is horrid to smirk.
taken writing thinking
I certainly think I'll end up writing about America in some form. I've taken plenty of notes. I like America very much.
children personality culture
I am a child of Cosmopolitan culture, have been traumatized by supermodels and too many quizzes and know that neither my personality nor my body is up to it if left to its own devices. I can't take the pressure.
missing together add
When someone leaves you, apart from missing them, apart from the fact that the whole little world you've created together collapses, and that everything you see or do reminds you of them, the worst is the thought that they tried you out and, in the end, the whole sum of parts adds up to you got stamped REJECT by the one you love. How can you not be left with the personal confidence of a passed over British Rail sandwich?
ideas world imbalance
Quite quickly I grew less deranged. I had begun the process of calming down, assimilating and compromising, which is necessary to live comfortably in the world as it is, and probably is why its imbalance never changes. But underneath, my idea of life was completely altered.
lasts want your-best-friend
But if you are single the last thing you want is your best friend forming a functional relationship with somebody else.